Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers 627
An anonymous reader writes "While drug cartels in Mexico are disemboweling people they accuse of blogging about drug violence, Anonymous busies itself taking down Mexican government websites. With all the problems facing people in Mexico right now, including drug cartels extorting teachers for 50% of their pay and killing schoolchildren (thus shutting down the school system), Mexico's biggest oil field in terminal decline and drug cartels kidnapping busloads of people and forcing them into gladiator-style contests to the death, Anonymous' actions appear particularly petty."
Legalise drug trade (Score:5, Informative)
RIAA In Massive Cocaine Trafficking ring (Score:4, Informative)
RIAA Label Used In Massive Cocaine Trafficking Ring
http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-label-used-in-massive-cocaine-trafficking-ring-110916/ [torrentfreak.com]
Earlier this year record label boss Jimmy Rosemond was arrested on the suspicion of leading a massive cocaine trafficking ring.
The founder of Czar Entertainment used shipments of music equipment to transfer cocaine across the United States.
These shipments went to several music studios, and according to a recent court filing uncovered by The Smoking Gun, Interscope Records is one of them.
This suggests that people at the RIAA label were in on the game.
Previously entertainment industry representatives have suggested that piracy can be linked to organized crime, and the above suggests that the same can be said for the music industry.
How many people in the music industry were part of the drug ring remains unknown at this point, but we would advise the RIAA to carefully investigate its members to avoid the practices from escalating.
Re:I agree (Score:1, Informative)
"ruthless right-wing pro-government paramilitaries": from where do you think the mafia cartels came??
Re:Legalise drug trade (Score:2, Informative)
Nope....
Take a look at prescription drugs... they are perfectly legal to carry, yet they kill more people than hardcore drugs, such as heroin, coke, and meth do combined, and I am also including deaths by drug deals, not by drug use alone....
Re:what i think the USA should do is (Score:3, Informative)
This is a troll, right? Nobody is this dumb, are they? Just in case, those Mexican cartels only even exist because of the War On [some] Drugs here in the USA.
Re:The solution is obvious: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The solution is obvious: (Score:4, Informative)
Government saves on law enforcement costs trying to police drugs...
Not necessarily:
http://www.fear.org/chicago.html [fear.org]
http://www.dpeg.org/legal_issues/assetforfeiture.htm [dpeg.org]
Re:Daily Mail alert! (Score:5, Informative)
It's somewhere between "ranting homeless person with a bottle of mouthwash in his guts" and "politician expenses claims" in believability.
Re:The solution is obvious: (Score:4, Informative)